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"Surviving The Bataan Death March" (Narration by the late Senator John McCain) Special Encore Presentation
From: Ronald Duffy
Caption: Ken Porwoll, Proud Veteran, Credit: Brainerd Dispatch (Brainerd, MN)
For 2023-24 "Surviving The Bataan Death March" Narrated by the late Senator John McCain (former POW) Special Encore Presentation Offered as ...

Bought by WUOT 91.9 FM, KWMU St. Louis, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WVTF, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and more


  • Added: Oct 19, 2023
  • Length: 57:22
  • Purchases: 17
Surviving The Bataan Death March (Narration by Jack Doepke)
From: Ronald Duffy
Caption: Ken Porwoll, Proud Veteran, Credit: Brainerd Dispatch (Brainerd, MN)
Veteran Ken Porwoll’s story recounts his inhumane treatment & riveting story of survival as one of 10,000 American & roughly 50,000 Filipino soldie...

Bought by KJZZ, KFAI Minneapolis, WRKF, WWNO, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Jun 06, 2022
  • Length: 57:32
  • Purchases: 17
Tell Saki - Part II
From: Israel Story
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In Part II of this tale, Yochai Maital brings the kind of war story we rarely hear – that which begins once the fighting ends. On October 8, 1973, ...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2021
  • Length: 47:57
Tell Saki - Part I
From: Israel Story
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In the first chapter of this two-part story, we embark on a journey back to the 1973 Yom Kippur War, and specifically, to one battle that unfolded ...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2021
  • Length: 52:51
Daze of Justice
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Daze of Justice is the story of trailblazing Cambodian-American women who break decades of silence, abandoning the security of their American homes...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KQED, WXDU, and WRIR


  • Added: Apr 17, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Ghosts of the Korean War: Stop THAAD
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Protest against President Trump and THAAD in Soseongri, Korea, Credit: Stop THAAD Alliance
We head to Soseongri, a small village nestled in the mountains of Seongju County. There, grandmas and grandpas in the 70s, 80s, and 90s are organi...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXDU, and WRIR


  • Added: Dec 03, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Follow the Moon
From: Greg Barron
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A story of the lives-- the torture, starvation, forced marriages...and fear of Cambodians (Khmer) forced into the labor camps and Killing Fields cr...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2017
  • Length: 56:40
Truth About America No. 3 - David Talbot on Democracy Now!
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Doug Bennett
Since we couldn't get David Talbot, founder of Salon.com and author of Devil's Chessboard, I borrowed portions of Amy Goodman's interview with him ...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2016
  • Length: 59:24
In Their Own Words: Voices of Our Veterans
From: Johnna Kerres
Caption: In Their Own Words: Voices of Our Veterans
This radio program features veterans of all eras beginning with World War II to the present day. Nine veterans share their recollections of before,...

Bought by 'The Sea' and WDSE


  • Added: Apr 07, 2015
  • Length: 01:41:34
  • Purchases: 2
The Beat: Wendell Affield - "Streams"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Wendell Affield grew up on a farm near Nebish, Minnesota. He's a Vietnam Veteran, wounded during his tour of duty on a gunboat in the Mekong Delta,...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2013
  • Length: 02:39
The Beat: Erin Lynn Marsh - "I Try To Imagine Eva Braun"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Erin Lynn Marsh has been published in Sugarhouse Review, Post Road Magazine, and Paper Darts. She holds an MFA from Lesley University in Boston, is...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2013
  • Length: 02:00
Irena Sendler, May 12, 2008
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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She was a small, dark-haired Polish Catholic who somehow managed to save 2500 Jewish children from the Nazis. How? Here's the tale. Also available...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2012
  • Length: 03:00
Muddy Jungle Rivers: Wendell Affield talk about his Vietnam memoir
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
Caption: Muddy Jungle Rivers - Wendell Affield
Wendell Affield of Bemidji joins Charlie Pulkrabek to talk about his new memoir about his experience in the Mobile Riverine Force while serving as ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 06, 2012
  • Length: 14:07
  • Purchases: 1
Silent and Unseen: Secret Agent in the Warsaw Uprising
From: Dave McGuire
Caption: Stefan Baluk during WWII, Credit: Stefan Baluk
A 97 year-old veteran of the Warsaw Uprising recounts parachuting into occupied Poland and fighting in a last-ditch attempt to re-take his home fro...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 18, 2011
  • Length: 14:19
  • Purchases: 2
San Francisco Stories from StoryCorps and KALW: How a 12-year-old foiled the FBI
From: KALW
Caption: Robert Tsutakawa spoke with his daughter Susan Tsutakawa in the San Francisco StoryCorps booth
It’s the year 1942. The United States has just joined the war in the Pacific. On the home front, the FBI is investigating and interning Japanese-Am...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 16, 2011
  • Length: 01:56
  • Purchases: 1
Marcel Mangel(Marceau), September 22, 2007
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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One night, entering a clearing, he and a companion came face to face with a well-armed Nazi patrol. Desperately outnumbered, he took an amazing cha...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
I Don't Care For War
From: The humble Farmer
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Should intelligent people say nothing when a wimpy little nothing of a man tries to blow half the world to kingdom come?

  • Added: Aug 07, 2008
  • Length: 03:31
Memorial Day: "Good Muslims, Great Americans"
From: Kyle Gassiott
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A story about Muslims in the American military-including a WWII vet who lobbied the government to designate Islam on military dogtags.

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: Jun 06, 2007
  • Length: 07:11
  • Purchases: 1
Tejidos Culturales 12-Japanese-American Community in the Valley
From: KRZA
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This program looks at the Japanese-American Community in the San Luis Valley and how they arrived.

Bought by KCEI 90.1 FM Red River/Taos, NM and KRFC


  • Added: Jan 01, 2007
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2